Job Details
Summary
With over 30 years of experience providing direct services to students and professional development to educators, Reading Assist has helped thousands of students acquire critical reading skills. Reading Assist is a non-profit organization that offers year-round high-dosage tutoring services to at-risk children with the most significant reading challenges, prioritizing support to low-income students, students of color, and English Language Learners.
Reading Assists strategic ambition is to become the leading regional expert and trusted provider of reading instruction for young, struggling readers. We intend to grow to serve 10,000 students with 90% reaching benchmark in foundational reading skills within one year.
The Development Manager supports all development, branding and marketing activities to meet fundraising and recruitment targets.
Manager: MD Partnerships and Development
Responsibilities:
? Facilitate standard operating procedures for donors, including mass email communications and communicate cross-functionally with all necessary team members, including legal, communications, and digital
? Own the organizations donor life cycle process, by recording, tracking, monitoring, reporting, and evaluating where individuals and foundations land from prospect to first-time donor, to major donor.
? Conduct prospect research for current and potential funders.
? Build relationships with key fellows, participants, sponsors and community leaders as well as existing and new corporate partners.
? Manage donor data and compliance
? Manage Customer Relationship Management System (CRM)
? Draft grant proposals
? Manage grant reporting
? Conduct grant and donor research
? Coordinate fundraising events
? Execute donor communications
? Maintain organization website and social media presence
Regular travel may be required to events within Delaware and surrounding states. This position is based in Wilmington, DE, and candidates are expected to work in the Wilmington office on a hybrid schedule.
Experience, Skills, and Competencies
? Bachelor's degree in marketing, communication or relevant experience
? Marketing and Public Relations
? Networking
? Project Management
? Fundraising Expertise/Donor Relations
? Excellent written and verbal communication
? High attention to detail
? Minimum 3 years of fundraising, event planning, or related experience
? Proven track record of meeting fundraising goals and securing major gifts
Salary: $50,000-$70,000. commensurate with experience
To apply, email your resume and letter of interest to the Recruitment Department at ...@readingassist.org